Wire-winding apparatus.



No. 673,599. Patented May 7, I901.

J. FARRELL.

WIRE WINDING APPARATUS.

(Application fild. Now-19, 1900.) (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet I.

ma Sfarrefi Q/Vihmoeo v @QZW No. 673,599. Patnted May 7, I901. J. FARRELL.

WIRE WINDING APPARATUS.

(Application filed Nov. 19, 1900A g Shuts-Sheet 2.

(No Model.)

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PATENT JAMES FARRELL, OF TROSKY, MINNESOTA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 673,599, dated May 7, 1901.

Application filed November 19, 1900. $eri 1No. 36,924. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES FARRELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at lrosky, in the county of Pipestone and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire -Windiug Apparatus; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the inven tion, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to wire winding or unwinding apparatus; and it consists of certain novel features of combination and construction of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

One object of myinvention is to provide a device of the character specified whereby spools of wire may be very readily unwound and disposed in position alongside a row of fenceposts, ready to be secured thereto in the usual manner.

My wire winding and unwinding apparatus will also be found desirable for winding checkrow wire upon a spool or unwinding the same therefrom and disposing it in position along the edge of the field, ready for use in connection with the planter.

While my invention will be found very desirable for paying off the wire alongside of a fence, it will also be found very useful and desirable for winding the wire upon spools, so that the same may be readily handled as desired when it becomes necessary to change the position of a fence.

It is well known to be a very difficult matter to handle the wire portion of a fence, inasmuch as the wires are usually covered with a series of barbs, which become dangerous when attempting to move the wire from one place to another.

By the use of my invention the old wire upon a fence may be readily removed by disengaging the staples and letting it fall upon the ground, when by the use of my invention such wire or wires may be readily wound upon a spool, and thus readily carried from place to place as desired.

Other objects and advantages will be made clearly apparent from the following specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention complete as applied to use upon a wagon of the usual or any preferred construction. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the winding mechanism and 00- operating parts illustrated in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an end view of my winding apparatus, showin g an edge view of the supporting-standards .and a section of the side of -the wagon-bed designed to support the same. Fig. 4 is a detail of a portion of the reversing clutch mechanism employed to hold the reel or spool against reverse rotation. Fig. 5 is a detail view of the controlling-pulley designed to cooperate with the winding mechanism and direct the wire thereto. Fig. 6 is an end view of the reel adjacent to the operating-handle, though showing said handle removed. Fig. 7 is an end view of an ordinary wire-holding spool and showing the clamp employed by me to insure the rotation of said spool upon the windingshaft.

In order to conveniently refer to the details of my invention and the elements deemed necessary to illustrate a practical application thereof to use, numerals will be employed, of which 1 is a supporting-standard for the winding mechanism, which is securely held in position by the clamps 2 and 3, carried by the horizontal sections 4, comprising a portion of the framework, said horizontal sections being properly connected together and reinforced by the braces 5, all of said parts being properly united together and formed of any preferred material. In order to anchor the framework, thus or otherwise constructed, so that it will remain securely attached to the side of the wagon-bed, the upper ends of the brace-sections 5 are curved in ward, so as to provide the books 6, it being understood that suitable setscrews 7 are also provided to cooperate with said hook-sections and engage the edge of the wagon-bed, as shown in Fig. 3.

The brace-sections 5 terminate in the downwardly-extending ear or bracket 8, and pivotally connected to the lower end of said bracket is the eyebolt 9, which extends through the anchoring-section 10,which latter extends across the under side of the wagon-bed and is secured in any preferred way, preferably by connecting the end of said anchoring-section to a rod, the upper end of which may be provided with a hook to engage the other edge of the wagon-bed. It is not considered necessary to illustrate said hook, inasmuch as it shows one of many ways whereby the section 10 may be secured. Upon the upper end of the standard I rigidly secure the head 11, which latter is rigidly attached to the circular plate 12, provided on its periphery with ratchet-teeth designed to cooperate with the detent 13, carried by the operating-lever 14 and controlled by the thumb-lever l5 and connecting-link 16, vaswill be readily understood by reference to Fig. 3 and other views. The

plate 12 is additionally supported and-reinforced by the standards 17 and 1S and extending from the'horizontal section 4 and bolted to the under side of said plate. Designed to be rotatably supported upon the plate 12 is the table-section 19, secured in position upon the plate 12 by a suitable king-bolt orby providing a journal extending from the under side of the plate 19 into a socket formed in the plate 12 and the head 11.

Rigidly secured to the upper side of the table-section 19 are the standards 20, which may consist of a single piece of material properly bent to extend across the central portion of clamps 23 and 24, the latter being provided with a collar or extension 25 in order that a set-screw may be entered through an aperture provided in said'c'o'lla-r and caused to engage the shaft 21.

I prefer to permanently and rigidly secure the clamp 23 to the shaft2l. While providing a set-screw for the clamp 24, the latter may be entirely removed from the shaft, and thus permit the shaft to be readily entered in the usual central aperture provided in the spool,

thus enabling the spool to be readily removed and replaced.

The outer end of the shaft 21 is held in its standard by the clamp 26, which latter consists of two vertically-disposed spring-like members, the upper ends of which are secured together by the set-screw 27, thus preventing a casual upward movement of the shaft, though permitting said shaft to be freely rotated during the operation of the winding mechanism. The opposite or inner end of the shaft 21 is normally disposed, so that it may be readily controlled by the operatinghandle 28 by a person standing in the wagon, thereby enabling the operator to freely turn the shaft in either direction.

The innerstandard 20 is provided with the hook 29, disposed parallel therewith .and designed to hook over the shaft 21 and prevent casual upward movement thereof, as shown in Fig. 6. Preferably inside of the inner standard 20 I secure rigidly to the shaft 21 the ratchet-wheel 30, designed to cooperate with the pawls or detents 31 and 32 as the shaft 21 is turned in either direction, it being understood that the teeth or ratchets on the wheel 30 are preferably made so that they will engage either detent.

-In order to have a greater control upon the shaft 21, I prefer to provide the driving-gears 33 and 34, the former being mounted upon the stub-shaft35, which is mounted in bearings provided in the inner standard 20 and the bracket 36. The lever 14 being rigidly secured to the table 19, as by the bolts 37, said table may be freely rotated by moving .said lever in either direction, thereby disposing the axle 21 so that the spool 22 mounted thereon may be freely brought into position to enable the wire to be readily wound thereon or unwound therefrom, it being understood that it will be desirable to always maintain the spool in a position which shall be substantially at right angles to the line of wire cooperating therewith.

If the table 19 is made of metal, its weight may be considerably reduced Without impairing its rigidityby providing the openings 38. In order to insure that the wire, as indicated by the numeral 39, may be held out of contact with the wagon-bed and properly delivered to the spool, I provide the pulley 40, properly mounted in the holder4l, which latter is pivotally connected to the arm or bracket 42. The bracket 42 is rein forced and supported by the brace-section 43, both of said parts being provided with the clamping member 44, each of said members having a set-screw 45, whereby they maybe removably secured to theedge ofthe wagon-bed in any position deemed most desirable.

In Fig. 2 I have shown a top plan view of the pulley, and thus illustrate how it cooperates with the winding apparatus, so that the wire 39 will be properly delivered to the spool by means of the detent 13 engaging the ratchet-teeth upon the edge of the plate 12. It is obvious that the table-section and the parts carried thereby may be rigidly secured in their operative positions by a proper adjustment of the lever 14. 'W'hen it is desired to check the rotation of the shaft 21 and the spool mounted thereon, one of the dogs or detents 31 or 32 may be disposed so that it will engage the ratchets upon the wheel 30, as will be readily understood. By throwing both of said detents in engagement with said wheel the spool will be securely locked against rotation in either direction. When, however, it is desired to wind the wire upon the spool, the detents are properly disposed, so that but one of them will engage the ratchet upon the wheel 30, thereby insuring -that each rotation or partial rotation of the spool 22 will be secured by said detent and the spool held against reverse movement. If desired, the shaft 21 may be thus securely locked against rotation, so that the entire wire in engagement with the spool 22 may be readily drawn over the ground if it should be desirable to move the wire from place to place without winding the same on the spool. I Having thus fully described the construction of my improved wire-controlling apparatus, the operation thereof may be stated to be as follows: When it is desired to wind the wire which may be upon the ground adjacent to a line of fence-posts from which it has just been disengaged, one end of the wire is properly secured to the spool and said spool rotated by turning the handle 28 and adjusting the detent 31, so that the spool will be held against reverse rotation. The vehicle upon which the winding mechanism is mounted is then driven along parallel with the line of fence, though sufficiently away from the wire to avoid danger to the team drawing the vehicle, and while the vehicle is thus moving along the wire the spool is rotated by the operator, who stands in the vehicle, thus enabling a long line of the wire to be very readily taken up and convenient-ly disposed of, ready for future use. When one spool becomes filled with wire, it may be readily removed from the shaft 21 by disengaging the hook 29 and lifting said shaft bodily upward and withdrawing the opposite end from the bearings 28, when a new spool may be entered on said shaft and the winding process continued. A spool of wire may be as readily and conveniently unwound from the spool by placing the same upon the shaft 21 and throwing the detents 31 and 32 outward, so that they will not engage the ratchetwheel 30 when the vehicle upon which the device is mounted may be driven alongside of the line of fence to be built, when the spool will freely rotate and pay off the wire, as is obvious. The bracket 22 may be made of any desired extent, so as to insure that the wire will be disposed a proper distance away from the vehicle, while the shaft 21 and the spool mounted thereon may be readily disposed at any angle with respect to the vehicle by properly adjusting the lever 14.

It will be understood that the several parts of my invention may be very cheaply and expeditiously manufactured and readily assembled in their respective operative positions, and while'I have described the preferred construction and combination of parts I desire to comprehend in this application all substantial equivalents and substitutes as may fall fairly within the purview of my invention, and I therefore do not wish to be confined strictly to the exact showing herein presented.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a wire-windingapparatus, the combination with a suitable supporting-standard and a head formed thereon, ofa plate fixed to said head; a table rotatably. mounted on said plate; a lever having a detent carried by said table whereby the latter may be adjusted and secured in any desired position and a pair of standards carried by said table and having a spool rotatably mounted thereon, all combined substantially as specified and for the purpose set forth.

2. The herein-described wire winding and unwinding device comprising a plate 12 having a ratchet formed upon the edge thereof; suitable means to support said plate in a horiz outal plane, in combination with a table rotatably mounted on said plate and having a lever and detent, the latter designed to engage said ratchetedge; standards secured to said table; a shaft mounted in said standards; means to hold said shaft removably within its bearings; a spool mounted on said shaft; a clamp adapted to removably secure said spool wherebyit will rotate with the shaft and a ratchet and detents cooperating therewith adapted to secure the shaft against rotation, all substantially as specified and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES FARRELL.

Witnesses:

H. E. DENHART, L. 0. SMITH. 

